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Theodicy without the Free Will Defense?

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

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The One Thing You Will Not Get in an Automated, Computerized Universe

I have found the writings of c s. Lewis enormously helpful on this. Is book, the problem of pain, a grief observed. People ask, could god not have made a universe in which these things don't happen? Of course he could. You can make a robotic universe that does everythingo. But the one thing you will not get in an automated, robotic, computerized universe is love relationship. And so i put it to you, suppose i had a perfect robotic wife. So i go home to her on friday night, and i meet her at the door, and i see  a screen that appears, and i press the button marked hiss. That would be

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